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About two or three years ago, I read a shocking article that about 1/4 of the American populace believed the sun revolves around the Earth. I wondered who were answering the question: uneducated immigrants…or young kids…or…? How was the question posed? The who stood out in my mind. Now, about a week ago, I read…
The last post talked about the distressing situation in the rural areas where little jobs are to be found and where a lot of the poor whites can be found. The residents subsist on disability checks and are often addicted to pills. And they all can’t find jobs. So how does one stay out of this…
The immense greed of this: constricting the ability of employees to find another job through non-compete clauses. And we are not talking about IT folks or scientists with high end technical skills or working on crucial, innovative products for the company. We’re talking about hair stylists, the folks making sandwiches, camp counselors. If you have…
For years employers have been saying that employees and job searchers do not have the requisite skills that they are looking for. It’s been about 8 years – since the Great Recession – employers have been harping on the lack of skills theme. During that time, they’ve been calling for STEM, STEM, STEM. I’m sure…
I read an article in the New York Times, about a week or so ago, about how the rural areas saw a devastating collapse of job growth since the Great Recession (but I would almost think it began around 2000 when wages started flattening out). The author, Thomas Edsall, usually writes about psychological insights into people…
Continuing with trying to see how we can improve our thinking process, the next series of chapters in Mindware by Richard Nisbett centers around economic thinking. You should get the book because the author has a lot of insightful knowledge about human behavior and I won’t be touching those. There are some really interesting tidbits.But first,…
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